Remote Dynatrace SME for Observability & Performance

Eliassen Group; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 110,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert to lead design, implementation, optimization, and support of enterprise observability across hybrid environments. You will partner with infrastructure, cloud, database, SRE, and operations teams to improve reliability, performance, and visibility.

The ideal candidate has deep Dynatrace administration expertise, strong infrastructure observability practices, and experience with database monitoring across cloud and on‑premises platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in IT infrastructure, monitoring, SRE or observability engineering.
• 3+ years hands-on Dynatrace administration and implementation.
• Experience in enterprise-scale environments with thousands of hosts/services.
• Delivery of observability solutions in highly available production environments.
• Expertise with Dynatrace: OneAgent, ActiveGate, Davis AI, Smartscape, Synthetics.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Dynatrace SME supporting enterprise observability initiatives.
• Design, implement, configure, and optimize Dynatrace monitoring solutions.
• Administer Dynatrace tenants, OneAgent deployments, ActiveGates, integrations, and upgrades.
• Establish monitoring standards, governance, naming conventions, alerting strategies, and dashboards.
• Promote observability best practices across infrastructure, cloud, databases, and middleware.
• Monitor and analyze performance of Windows, Linux/Unix, VMware, Kubernetes/OpenShift, public cloud services, storage, network, and load balancing.
• Configure dashboards, alerts, anomaly detection, and capacity planning reports.
• Design and support database monitoring for Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and DB2 where applicable.
• Analyze query performance, resource utilization, locking, deadlocks, and transactions.
• Develop database observability dashboards and KPI reporting with DBAs.
• Build intelligent alerting to reduce noise and improve incident response.
• Develop custom metrics, extensions, synthetic monitoring, SLIs, SLOs, and availability monitoring.
• Implement event correlation and root cause analysis workflows.
• Integrate Dynatrace with ServiceNow, Splunk, PagerDuty, Jira, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate with PowerShell, Python, Bash, and support Terraform-based IaC.
• Participate in production support and major incident management, lead RCA, and create runbooks.
• Mentor engineers and support teams.

Skills

Dynatrace administration

Infrastructure observability

Database monitoring strategies

Cloud and on-premises

SRE collaboration

Tools

OneAgent

ActiveGates

Davis AI

Smartscape

Synthetic Monitoring

RUM

Logs API

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Dynatrace Subject Matter Expert to lead design, implementation, optimization, and support of enterprise observability across hybrid environments. You will partner with infrastructure, cloud, database, SRE, and operations teams to improve reliability, performance, and visibility.

The ideal candidate has deep Dynatrace administration expertise, strong infrastructure observability practices, and experience with database monitoring across cloud and on‑premises platforms.